Frustrated, please help!...

waldo · Post by **waldo** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 6:43 am

I've spent the last few days trying to get my PC and PS2 talking so I can have a go at writing some demo's for the machine. But as of yet haven't had any luck.

I've got a basic PAL (UK) machine, no modchips installed. First I bought a PS1 demo cd and tried the demo disk swap, but that didn't work. Then today I've gone and bought Action Replay 2 V2, I've burnt numerous PS2Link cd's but and have succesfully done the knife swap trick. But still I can't get anything 'homebrew' up and running.

Here are what I've got and am using:

Standard PAL PS2 (from early 2003)
Broadband Adapter connected to PS2 and Router
Action Replay 2 V2 (including PS1 bonus cd)
PC with linux & xp also connection to router
LAN/Broadband router that works

I downloaded PS2Link and created a custom CDR, burnt using CDRWin.
I've also tried one of the memory card exploit programs, that copies PS2Link to a memory card. I made sure the CD settings were correct and altered IPCONFIG.dat to my network settings.

I boot up my PS2 with Action Replay (tried both PS2 and PS1 Cd's), then as instructed select 'game/no codes' and then knife swap the cd's when it asks you to insert your game cd. I then press 'x' and get a series of wierd quiet noises, then nothing...?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, after 3 days of trying to get this to work I'm now ripping my hair out.

Cheers,

Waldo

Post by **Oobles** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 11:01 am

I don't know anything about the ActionReplay etc.. however the easiest and best method of starting developing on an unmodified machine is using the PS2-Independence exploit. The only additional things you need are:

1. A memory card.
2. A PS1 game.
3. A memory card utility such as Xport.

Oobles.